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Articles tagged “travel advisors”

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Travel Advisor Innovation Report: Bleisure Trend a Mixed Blessing for Agents

As more business travelers view their trips as working vacations, travel advisors must draw on both corporate and leisure travel-planning skills. It's no simple challenge, but it's necessary given the strength of the bleisure travel trend.

Travel Advisor Innovation Report: Bleisure Trend a Mixed Blessing for Agents

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Travel Advisors Warn U.S. Clients to Get Ready for Real ID Deadline

It may seem early to be worrying about the October 2020 deadline for so-called Real IDs for U.S. domestic travel, including U.S. territories, but planning ahead could reduce headaches at the airport or motor vehicle agencies.

Travel Advisors Warn U.S. Clients to Get Ready for Real ID Deadline

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Travel Advisor Innovation Report: South African Agents Build Trips for the Untraveled

Whether it's an appeal to young black South Africans or seniors who fear paying a single supplement, travel advisors who know the particular needs of their own peer groups can have a built-in advantage.

Travel Advisor Innovation Report: South African Agents Build Trips for the Untraveled

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Young Black South African Agents Inspire Their Peers to Travel

Personal experience counts when it comes to encouraging young black South Africans to pack their suitcases and discover their own country, say the co-founders of Johannesburg-based Traveling Cheapskates. The co-founders build trips that they'd like to take, too, and feel like they intimately understand their customers.

Young Black South African Agents Inspire Their Peers to Travel

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Travel Specialist Develops a Buddy System for Seniors on Vacation

Senior travel is a lucrative and growing segment, but many seniors stay home because they don’t want to go solo. A travel advisor’s new matching site for seniors may be a modest solution.

Travel Specialist Develops a Buddy System for Seniors on Vacation

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Travel Advisor Innovation Report: Leading Life-Changing Tours for Women of Color

The owner of Rogue Experiences is a good example of the way that travel advisors, for whom travel is often a second career, can draw on past experiences to reinvent themselves in a fulfilling way.

Travel Advisor Innovation Report: Leading Life-Changing Tours for Women of Color

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Travel Advisor Innovation Report: Virgin and Ritz Cruise Lines Have Brand Loyalty Hopes

Will Ritz-Carlton Yacht Collection and Virgin Voyages, two high-end and newbie cruise lines, be able to attract passengers who have never chosen a cruise vacation? The two brands are counting on it.

Travel Advisor Innovation Report: Virgin and Ritz Cruise Lines Have Brand Loyalty Hopes

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Travel Advisor Innovation Report: Sell Services, Not Fees

Travel advisors need to reinvent how they market themselves. It's not about service fees anymore. Forward-thinking agents sell service packages — unabashedly.

Travel Advisor Innovation Report: Sell Services, Not Fees

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Luxury Agents Try to Combine High-Level Service With Street-Level Experiences

Luxury travel advisors are experts at planning a five-star vacation for their clients, but agents are more frequently being asked to add a more local element to their plans. A lot of behind-the-scenes work goes into making sure these experiences go off without a hitch.

Luxury Agents Try to Combine High-Level Service With Street-Level Experiences

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Travel Advisors Are Selling Concierge Services — Just Don’t Call Them Fees

Consultant Nolan Burris is a pioneer in advocating that travel agencies charge service fees. Now that the practice has become standard, Burris says many agencies have failed to realize the revenue potential of service packages and need to overhaul their approach.

Travel Advisors Are Selling Concierge Services — Just Don’t Call Them Fees